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Imprisoned in English: the hazards of English as a default language

·2014·Choice Reviews Online
DOI 10.5860/choice.52-0677
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PART I: Every language draws a circle ... Chapter 1. Introduction: Recognising the contingency of one's own language Chapter 2. Naming the world or construing the world? Chapter 3. The givens of human life Chapter 4. Universal words, semantic atoms and semantic molecules Chapter 5. Human bodies and human minds: what is visible and what is invisible PART II: Emotions and values Chapter 6. Anglo values vs. Human values: Talking about values in a global world Chapter 7. Human emotions and English words: Are anger and disgust universal? PART III: 'Politeness' and 'cooperation' Chapter 8. Talking to other people: 'Politeness' and cultural scripts Chapter 9. Doing things with other people: 'cooperation', 'interaction' and 'obs?enie' PART IV: Entering other minds Chapter 10. Grammar and social cognition: the Hawaiians, the Dalabons, and the Anglos Chapter 11. Endangered languages, endangered meanings Chapter 12. Thinking about 'things' in Yucatec and in English Chapter 13. Chimpanzees and the evolution of human cognition PART V: Breaking down the walls of the prison Chapter 14. From ordinary (Anglo) English to Minimal English PART VI: kindred thinking across disciplines Preliminary remarks Chapter 15. Anthropology, Psychology, Psychiatry Chapter 16. Philosophy, Theology, Politics Chapter 17. Linguistics: Cognitive and cultural approaches Chapter 18. Bilingualism, Life writing, Translation Final remarks References Index

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Venue
Choice Reviews Online
Publisher
American Library Association
Published
2014-09-22
Volume
52
Issue
02
Pages
52-0677-52-0677
ISSN
  • 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
  • 1523-8253
DOI
10.5860/choice.52-0677
OpenAlex
W631046676
Cited by
331
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Type
book review
Language
en
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language and Culture
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Keywords
language and thought, linguistic relativity, language universals, emotions, values, politeness, cooperation, endangered languages, Yucatec Maya, chimpanzees, human cognitive evolution, bilingualism, translation, cross-cultural cognition

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